Anti-Trafficking Services Outreach Specialist

PREBLE STREET•Portland, OR

7d•Onsite

About The Position

For over 10 years, Preble Street has been a leader in the anti-trafficking movement in Maine. Working with a network of partners to promote individual and systemic justice, Preble Street’s Anti-Trafficking Services (ATS) provides survivor-centered services toward healing, growth, and self-sufficiency to people who have been trafficked and forced into commercial sex work, domestic services, agricultural work, restaurant work, or other labor. Preble Street is seeking a full-time Outreach Specialist to work with the ATS team to provide intensive case management, housing-related services, and targeted outreach activities with migrant farmworkers, seafood laborers, and other communities to identify victim/survivors of trafficking. While facilitating access to other supportive services to ensure basic needs are met, Outreach Specialists also provide crisis intervention and support; participate in program coverage; collaborate with community partners to provide a survivor-centered continuum of care; document and report services provided; and work collaboratively with the ATS team toward offering high-quality services and meeting program objectives.

Requirements

A combination of education or study in social work or related field and relevant experience working with trafficking survivors or similar populations, OR comparable combination of education and lived experience
Frequent, statewide travel is required for this position
Access to reliable transportation for daily, regional travel
Understanding of and commitment to low-barrier service provision, Housing First principles, harm reduction, and empowerment approaches
Understanding of issues related to human trafficking survivors and other experiences of trauma
Understanding of systemic racism, oppression, social and economic justice
Positive regard for individuals fleeing violence, experiencing homelessness, poverty, engaging in commercial sex, and other complex situations
Effective crisis intervention skills
Ability to maintain professional boundaries
Collaborative work style
Computer skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

Bi/multi-lingual skills

Responsibilities

Provide intensive case management
Provide housing-related services
Conduct targeted outreach activities with migrant farmworkers, seafood laborers, and other communities to identify victim/survivors of trafficking
Facilitate access to other supportive services to ensure basic needs are met
Provide crisis intervention and support
Participate in program coverage
Collaborate with community partners to provide a survivor-centered continuum of care
Document and report services provided
Work collaboratively with the ATS team toward offering high-quality services and meeting program objectives